Richard Alba (Faculty) talked about his new book The Great Demographic Illusion on ⁦⁦WAMC Northeast Public Radio⁩. https://www.wamc.org/post/great-demographic-illusion-sociologist-richard-alba

Janet Gornick (Faculty) talked about economics and poverty in the time of COVID-19 on CUNY TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNvfbSQrb5I

We are saddened to share that our former student François Anick Joseph passed away on October 27. François was starting to work on his dissertation, “The Religious Practices in the Construction/negotiation of Diaspora Identity among Haitian Immigrants in New York City.” with William Helmreich, Mehdi Bozorgmehr and Philip Kasinitz on his committee. He took a leave of absence in Spring 2008 but decided to continue with his other passion in his home country, as a senator. François was a former senator of the Artibonite Department in Haiti. Our deepest condolences to François’ family and friends. 

Erynn Masi de Casanova, our alumna who was in the same cohort as Francois and is currently Director of Research, Professional Development & Academic Affairs at the ASA, has started to collect money for his family through her PayPal (Erynn Casanova). If someone wants to contribute but doesn’t have a PayPal account, they can just email her at  ecasanova@asanet.org. We recently learned that François’ wife passed away four years ago, so his daughters (ages 11 and 9) have lost both parents. We would appreciate anything that people are able to send, even a small amount.

https://www.echovita.com/ca/obituaries/on/brampton/francois-anick-joseph-11673936

https://haitiantimes.com/2020/10/28/ex-senator-annick-joseph-died/

Julie C. Suk (Faculty)

Prof. Suk’s research on the Equal Rights Amendment was featured in SUM. 

“One Scholar’s Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment: ‘We Can Fix It’” 

Professor Julie Suk has spent more than 10 years studying the Equal Rights Amendment, tracking its progress in the U.S. and similar amendments in European countries. Now, she’s sharing her wealth of knowledge with the world in her new book, We the Women: The Unstoppable Mothers of the Equal Rights Amendment.

“The absence of equal rights for women in our Constitution says something shameful about the Constitution that we have,” Suk, the dean of master’s programs at The Graduate Center, CUNY,  tells SUM. “We can fix it though.”

Read more: https://sum.cuny.edu/equal-rights-amendment-women-graduate-center-julie-suk/